Pacific Waves for Tuesday 12 May 2015

3:05 PM.Hope that foreign media will take chance to access West Papua freely; Academic slams NZ's aid direction; The non-communicable disease crisis in the Pacific intensifies; More than a million people… Read more Audio

3:04 PM.Hopes have been raised for greater access to the Pacific's hidden region after the Indonesian President Joko Widodo promised West Papua would be open to foreign media. Audio

3:03 PM.A scathing critique is given of New Zealand's foreign aid programme. Audio

3:00 PM.The Rugby Players Association discuss World Rugby funding models, international eligibility laws and the uneven playing field faced by rugby players from the big nations and those in the lower tiers. Audio

5:04 AM.NCD crisis in the Pacific intensifies with nine of the ten most obese countries in the world are in the Pacific; Referendum in Norfolk Island points to further battles with Australia for… Read more Audio

5:03 AM.Figures released by the World Health Organisation show nine out of the ten most obese countries in the world are in the Pacific, with Cook Islands topping the list with 50.8 percent of its people… Read more Audio

5:01 AM.More than one million people are expected to pass through a pavillion for Tuvalu at one of the world's most prestigious contemporary art exhibitions - the 56th Venice Biennale. Audio